For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals (Length: 2 pages)

May 14, 2009

Case Study: Graybar Electric Builds Virtualization Into The DNA Of Its Infrastructure

by Galen Schreck, Rachel A. Dines

with Alex Crumb


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Five years ago, the supply chain management services giant Graybar Electric began to dabble in virtualization technologies. Today, it has a large and successful virtual server and storage environment and has not added a watt to its data center in two years despite growing the infrastructure by 35%. How did they do it? In short, Graybar's success can mainly be attributed to the attitude that its infrastructure and operations (I&O) department adopted with respect to virtualization.

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Analyst: Galen Schreck, Rachel A. Dines
Technology: Infrastructure Measurement, IT Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Management
Industry: Professional Services
Geography: North America

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